Ágnes Melinda Kovács

Rank:

Associate Professor

Unit Affiliation:

Cognitive Development Center

Baby Lab

Contact information

Building:

Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51

Room:

5th floor, Room C508.

Phone:

+43 1 25230 7496

Email:

kovacsag@ceu.edu

My research focuses on how the developing human mind manages to make sense of the complex social and physical world. I am interested in the basic cognitive mechanisms that are present very early on in development, and allow infants to learn from social partners and about social partners, both with incredible ease and efficiency. On the one hand, I investigate the mechanisms very young infants have to develop to learn from the complex input they receive from their social partners, while learning about language or about human made artefacts. On the other hand, my research focuses on the mechanisms infants need to employ to learn about social partners, especially about their invisible mental states, such as goals and beliefs. A great part of my work targets processes that allow sustaining simultaneously multiple representations of the world, which are fundamental in various domains, such as bilingual language acquisition or reasoning about other people's mental states that can be different from one’s own mental states.

PhD Students Supervised:

PhD Students Graduated:

Dora Kampis

Martin Freundlieb (co-supervisor)

Eszter Szabó

Paula Fischer (secondary supervisor)

Ieva Lukosiunaite (secondary supervisor)